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vol x xo 32 a m sunday Chicago february 6 1910 price five cents sunday ilmlers is a close mw daughter gains after prayers says hyslop iii bund lasuiolo art routeo by gold no cash no opera american suffragette back from english prison 7,000,000 jump in payroll one employe to 19 voters 60,000,000 budget explained spiritualists unite in asking recov ery of psychical research sec retary's 111 child senator aldrich presents measure providing for com mission of nine orchestra fails to get 750 pay and walks out new york feb s professor james h hyslop secretary of the american so ciety for psychical research this after noon confirmed the report that ills daugh â– ter winifred who was dying friday had shown considerable improvement to-dav following prayers by a band of spiritualists yesterday he refused to discuss whether he thought the prayers tmrt brought about the girl's improved condition the news of miss hy'slnp's illness spread rapidly tliroir^h spiritualistic circles and at the suggestion of a friend prayers were offered up by two score persons yesterday afternoon at the residence of mrs e mult 1 roe hand in west sixty-seventh street dr titr.s tiuli wiio is treating miss h.vsiop denied a report fbat he had written a letter saying that only prayers conld save the girl's life the first association of spiritualists will hold u meeting to-morrow afternoon at which prayers will again ae offered up for tile girl's recovery of theater discuss stock watering pleadings of no avail chicago's expenses increased over 100 per cent in last six years 1,425,616 sal ary boost in 1908 alone 8,245 workers in 1803 raised to 12,872 in 1908 j | â– administration has not only used up last dollar of in j come but has drawn on bond issues for outlay | mayor breaks records in number of appointees | remarkable facts in chicago's budget house committee considers measures bearing on the subject 800 returned to audience who came to see carmen house dark at night auld guilty is report sot only has tlie city lived np;to tiie lazt dollar of its ordinary in come tj-.it it lias had to draw on til | proceeds of bond issues for ordinary expenses Â« * Â¥ in the last six years the corporate expenses of the Chicago city govern ! inent liava increased more than 109 per cent "â€¢ %â€¢ the increaae in salary rolls from 1903 to 1908 was approximately l 37,000,000 in the first year of his administra tion mayor bnsse added to the city pr.y rolls nearly twice as many em i ployss as his predecessor added in the two years of his administration and two and one-half times as many employes as mayor harrison added jj to the payrolls from 1900 to 1904 convicted on two counts ami ae jnitted of falsifying charge bywilliamj shanks miss alice paul b*bxs^<^^<s*><^mxs>e-^4*sxs><^*<sksxs miss paul tells of british jail torture | bostox ffb n although the members of the court-martial in the case of naval i paymaster avm are reticent as to their l findings there is reason to believe that the officer has been found guilty on two charges and not guilty on one the charge of which be is thought to have been acquitted is that of telling a falsehood the other charges on whu'h he is believed to have been convicted involve the maltreating of a civilian and conduct unbecoming an officer ant a gentleman it has been recommended it is said that he be reduced in rank a few numbers prob j abiy not ex coed ing six â€¢ i auld and assistant surgeon ansey h robnett were summoned on trial'on charges by medical inspector howard e ames stationed at boston growing out of a dance given at the boston navy yard de cember 11 last at which paymaster auld is alleged to have assaulted dr edward spencer cowles a brother of rear admiral cowlea miss dorothy hesler of evanston 111 was the innocent cause of the episode in which a photograph of the young lady played a conspicuous part twenty-two lowly lnusli-isns wieldera of the bow an'l blowers of brass spoiled an artistic performance if carmen at the great northern theater yesterday nfter r.o.m every one of the twenty-two is a member of the musicians union and they didn't spoil it by tlieir playing aa is often the case liut put a blight on the entire production by refnslng to piny while carmen anil her t > â– â– . sweetheart sang or wept to lon ;. i -..-. as the case might just because iho musicians claimed that impresario el odierno owed them 7t>o in back salaries they hung up the performance and an audience of well in dollars and cents it was au soo audience â€” sat waiting and munching chocolatea until 3 o'clock in the afternoon only to have f c eberts manager of the theater make his bow before the footlights and repeat a speech which caused she dollars and cents to melt away like sno-.vflakes in july ladies and gentlemen i am sorry to announce that on account of trouble with the orchestra the performance of car men cannot be given this afternoon this evening's performance will not be given those who wish their money back can obtain it at the box office was the burden of mr eberts 1 speech soft language grows harsh in the meantime there was a weeping and gnashing of teeth behind the big as bestos curtain of the theater stars and comets of all degrees of magnitude flew across a painted firmament and if the scenery hadn't been fireproof it might haye been seriously damaged the com pany which is producing gtand opera at the great northern the national grand opera company is mostly italian and the so/t vowels and liquid verbs of sunny italy suddenly assumed the consistency of billiard balls and rattled clicked and caromed as everybody talked at once it is the money we want and not the dream of the glory declared pietro sec ond fiddle with a long sweeping gesture of his bow as e stood facing impresario odierno the impresario said something whirh sounded like a mixture of his own name with two pounds of blasting powder blanche hamilton fox puffed and paint ed and powdered and as pretty a cigarette girl as^ver charmed a don jose tripped up and tried to restore peace but she might as well have tried to reform the bandits of her mountain retreat but musicians are firm we will give you 300 now and pay yon practically all of yonr salaries if you will play at this afternoon's and this evening's performance said manager eberts with yankee directness zyzaretolmerstowzxzzornamirshline reth armornzxteutonw shouted a chorus of italian musicians who composed the com mittee appointed by the orchestra mem bers to demand immediate payment of sala manager efcerts knowing that the thea ter was not responsible for the salaries im mediately retreated before this apparently warlike declaration conductor g ange lini pleaded and threatened the members of his orchestra but they stood firm it i pay and play with them ind to think that 1 have been adver 1 all over the country as leading this estra lie groaned as he saw his at pts at pacification were useless le audience filed out without seeing rmen and last night there were many ppointed conples inquiring at the box office i he national grand opera company w york organization and started i in on the road some time ago sai iger eberts in new york the com was located at the academy of musi the company has made money since i Chicago engagement but v.as behind son in salaries if the musicians had played at the afte noon's and evening's performance the would have been paid within v>d of wli.it was owing them i think that some sort of a compromise will be reached sundaj afternoon however the striking musicians nay they will sweep he streets before they v,ih-com promise american suffragette home again bound while food was forced down throat a 10,000 bill is lost messenger drops piÂ«e ii loose change sent by banking firm ! new york feb 5 a simple ten-word message came over the ticker tape be tween quotations to-day which set hun dreds of messenger boys and office boya in the financial district searching through wall street the tape read lost a tea thousand dollar bill notify ilornblower & weeks this piece of loose change had been eent by hornblower & weeks bankers and hrokers to a member of the exchange and was lost by the messenger on his way to wall street gives 100 boys 1 each washixgtox f-'h ."Â».â€” i-'rom tiie com mittee on public expenditures senator a!<l rioh to-iiay reported a bill providing for the creation of i permanent commission oa business methods in the government lie said the bill bnd the unanimous sanc tion jf th expenditure commission and sought to obtain immediate consideration in this request he was antagonized by senator elkins who said he desired op portunity to determine whether the com mission would interfere with the functions of congressional committees aecordinely the hill went ever but mr aldrieh sve i notice that he would call it up again hon tlic bill provides that the proposed com mission shall consist of nine members i three of wliich are to be members of the beiiatts three members of the house and three to befcppointed by the president the measure grows out of the efforts of the public expenditure committee to re duce government expenditures stock watering is discussed watering of railroad stock and bonds and the protection of innocent investors figured in to-day's hearing on proposed railroad legislation before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce in the course of the hearing counsel cited the hypothetical case of a railroad issuing bonds for 30,000,000 going into receiver ship and when reorganized being appraised by the interstate commerce commission at only 810,000,000 argument arose as to whether the bond issue under the reorgan ization should be allowed to the extent of 30,000,000 or be limited to 10,000,000 james byrne of new york representing railroad interest argued in favor of a law that would allow the reorganized com panies to issue to the maximum of their original indebtedness why not squeeze ont all the water at the first opportunity asked chairman because that would do an injustice to the holders of the original piiper the peo ple who bought in good faith and who would be robbed unless they could get new securities equivalent in value to what they had iu the first place replied ilr the committee considered a provision in the townsend bill to validate previous cou tracts chairman mann suggested . that this might add value to securities based wholly on water cuba will not raise shoe duty the cuban government will not increase the duty on american-made shoes iniportea into that country a dispatch to that ef fect has been received at the state de partment from the united states charge a havana who states that be has an un equivocal assurance of the president him bt-if that nothing will be done by th cuban congress in any degree disadvanta geous to american shoes some time ago the state department re received unofficial information that th culian congress proposed to increase mate rially the duty on a number of articles including shoes largely supplied on th island by the united states immediately the state department bega receiving protests from different parts o the country representing important export interests pointlna out the danger affecting trade between the united states and cuba the department made representations to th cuban president suggesting that such a course would jeopardize the good feeling entertained in the united states toward cuba und expressing the hope for a recon sideration of the matter vineennes merchant starts bank accounts to teach yontlis thrift vixce.nnks ind feb s finding his pnst efforts to encourage thrift among vin cennes youth a success jacob m gimbel a merchant to-day opened savings accounts of 1 each for 100 boys the beneficiaries must save and deposit a like amount be fore they can get final possession f the jonors money qtarbel has found that 75 i>er cent of the recipients become regular keepers of bank accounts besides twelve roung men are now attending various col eges through loans arranged with gimbel own requiem by odell former governor comments cheer fully on mi political funeral new york feb s former governor benjamin b odell commented cheerfully last night on his own political funeral to the members of the delaware valley so ciety at their annual banquet lie said u is a wise child that knows his own father and r want to say that it is a wise politician who knows when he is dead i am supposed to be politically dead some times i even think i ought to turn re 1 former 490,000 in bible fund american society need jo,ooo to get sirs sage'n ici.ooo commissioner of public works subject of grand jury vote but escaped true bill ad mits member of the body ericson redieske and con tractor ivicgovern accused with others of complicity in shale graft at city hall cummings foundry case is left to february inquisition along with eight other ex posures by commission an attempt wns m:Â»je to indict comnii sinner cii public v.'orks john j huulier lien the indictments returned yesterda for alleged graft at the city hall wer rated against city engineer john erieson contractor michael 12 mcuoveru i'au euieske and eleven others in charge growing out of the two graft scandals i connection with the construction of th lawrence avenue intercepting sewer a vote was taken on the yuescion wheth er the evidence heard by the grand jury istihed the indictment of commissioner hanberg the twelve rotes necessary 1o i'iduct were hot cast i'<r the proposition ;. nd mr han berg escaped iteports of the proceedings in the grand jury room had it that president james b i-'organ of the first national bank who was an active member of the grand jury re\v his vote and influence into the scale on the side of jlr ilauberg and greatly aided in ibe contest to defeat the indict ment of the former ireasnrer of coif i * ouij1 1 '. 5jands by secrecy oath as last niiibt , n-uai ii i â– - attlttnl was j on the iii.ilion i vote i tnie bq against ! ir hanberg mr porgan said i took an oath o recreoj and am pro hibited by that oalh from revealing any information as to what happened during ur deliberations an admission that a rote had been taken en the question o indicting commissioner u&nberg was obiauied last night from i'ranc e gardner 1704 humboldt boule-t vard who was the sergeant-at-arma of the jury mr gardner said i would not lie the lirst to divulge anyj information as to what occurred during the frand iury's deliberations on the graft â€¢ cases but as the matter has leaked out 1 ill say that the question whether the evi dence justified the indictment of mr han oerg was voted upon and was defeated be cause it failed to get twelve votes the ma ofity necessary for a true bill in the grand jury of twenty-three members no dissension in jury room 1 want to add however that tliere 1 ere no dissensions or rows among the i , rand jurors either in reference to hie , rraft oases or any others though some i hffereuces of opinion occasionally cropped oat if my memory is right the decision on every true ijill in the city hall cases vas by unanimous vote was mr forgan one of the grand jurors who helped to defeat the attempt to indid mr hanberg was asked 1 rill not discuss that matter further uan to say that mr forgau and nearly every member of the jury had something to - ty wlien the time came to vote indict ments the jury took a separate rote ou every indictment for alleged graft cummings case passed along after returning the indictments in court the grand jury decided to pass to the feb ruary grand jury the investigation of the ity's alleged illegal purchases of hydrant castings from the t a cummings fouu dry company a veil as eight other cases of which are said to be city hall cases resulting from the investiga ions of the merriani commission r i shall have to mortgage the furniture in my home to hire a lawyer to defend me from this outrageous charge that the irreedy apaches of the contractors ring have put over on me said city engineer wricson after he had learned that he was included in the latest batch of indict ments i have no money to speak of and own nn real estate it has taken all my salary to keep my family during my twen ly-six years of service.for the city declined offer in sweden _ if i had accepted the position offerÂ«j to me a short time ago to become head of : lie engineering department of the city of stockholm sweden i would have been be nd tho reach of these indictment blows which the the rewards that a man gets in america for a ike-time of faithful public nice i mean to tight to the last ditch how ever and my friends can rest assured that 1 will never be convicted of graft in auy conn i want to repeat that i never be longed to the city hall graft ring and uevcr will list or the accused four of the indictments were in the vlkile rock graft in section d and ten v.e;e reindictments in the concrete graft | new york feb s the kev john fox secretary of the american liible so ciety to-day that of the 5300.000 which is being raised to match a like amouut offered by mrs uussell sage 490,000 had been collected and that a let ter from michigan advised him that the writer would be glad to be one of twenty donors to provide 500 each immediately dr fox told the michigan correspondent he would endeavor to collect the remain der dr fox said that in the last sixteen months the subscriptions to the endowment fund had averaged 1,000 a day john d jr a crusader rtork feb c.-miss alice paul g american girl who while studj mie and social conditions in eng ; arrested seven times and impris e times because of her activity in e of wobmb suffrage told the her arrest and experiences to prison in an interview at the headquarters of the equality league of self-supporting women iu this city to-day | for n time she has had enough of eug ! land where she has been for two and a half rears instead she is going back to the university of pennsylvania to eom j plete her studies of economics and sociol ogy she has been out of prison only two months and her face still shows signs of the severity of her confinement it wad torture to be forced to eat she said twice a day for the month that i spent in hollaway prison in london i wits strapped and bound round with sheets until i could not move a muscle . then another sheet was bound round my throat to keep my neck rigid and the torture com lneuced disguised as charwomen a long glass tube bent at the end and as thick as my thumb was forced through my nostrils and the liquid food poured in the pain was intense but i would not to prevent political meetings and ban quets being . interrupted by suffragettes wooden barricades nine feet high are erected round the hali as miss paul could not climb a barricade erected on november 9 she and her friend miss brown disguised themselves as charwom en and presented themselves for work at 8 o'clock in the morning the pass word we gave said miss paul was the one word kitchen and we were instantly passed in then we hunted around until we found a glass door leading to the balcony that overlooked the banquet ing hall we stayed behind that door un disturbed until 9 o'clock at night and as premier asqulth commenced to talk i took off my shoe smashed the glass in the door and shouted e want votes for women ' instantly there was an uproar mi asquith stopped and the band began to play the guests many of whom were cabinet ministers and titled personages jumped up and commenced to hunt for us they seemed to think we were on the roof and to watch all those englishmen in their ire*s clothes climbing on the roof when we were right near them was the funniest thing i saw during my stay in the couu jailed for not paying fine ; when the two women were discovered they were â€¢ arrested the next morning they were arraigned charged with break ing ii window and were fined 3u or in default a month's imprisonment refus ing to pay they were taken to holloway prison and as the result of their incar ceration and their refusal to eat miss paul was 111 for three weeks after her release and miss brown is still in au invalid's on another occasion miss paul was ar rcsti'il for obstructing the police at a po litical meeting in trafalgar square and hud to serve twelve days in holloway miss paul snys she is just twenty-five yean old she does not talk about the time when women shall have votes she considers they hnvp them now the only question tcp lie settled is the matter of recording them jffer of 92.-j.ooo for white slave fight in refused new york feb s so interested has john d rockefeller jr become in the so called white slave traffic question which the special grand jury of which he was foreman looked into last month that he offered to donate i;>,000 out of his own poc.ktt for a complete investigation the offer wus refused by district attorney whitman and judge o'sullivan who lield that the public should pay the board of estimate at mr whitman's request appro priated the money glazier is sentenced former michigan m :â– !â€¢â€¢â€¢ trenknrer i:is serve five to ten years king greets fairbanks victor emmanuel of italy receiver the former vice preÂ»ident mason mich feu 6 frank i gla zier formerly state treasurer who was convicted of misappropriation of 685,000 state funds to the uso of his private bank and his conviction affirmed by the su preme court whs sentenced to serve not less than five years nor more than ten in jackson prison by judge wiest this morn ing glazier's only comment on the sen tence was i fully expected it swope injunction void t t or the first time in its history chicago's budget of anticipated i l yearly expenditures touches the 560,000,000 mark more than 10,000,000 of this is to come from special bond issues if the a voters consent the administration specifies in detail the per manent public improvements to which the proceeds oi these special bond issues are to be applied yet as a matter of municipal history 1 the city has used portions of previous bond issues for current expenses Chicago is in the position of a corporation that has not even met current expenses out of current revenues under prudent management not only should the city's operating expenses such as salaries be paid out of current revenue but the city's physical upkeep also mainte nance repairs and depreciation ate all chargeable to current revenue bond issues by common consent should be reserved for capital out lay in permanent improvements yet the city's accounts show conclusively that a part at least of the proceeds of bond issues have been used to defray current ex penses not only has the city lived up to the last dollar of its ordinary income but it has had to draw on the proceeds of bond issues tar ordinary expenditures this means that future taxpayers must when these past bond issues fall due settle for the incompetence and ex travagance of former administrations where there are tangible im provements to show for these bond issues the case is different city's expenses increase ovejtjoo per gent it is pertinent also to note that in the last six years the cor porate expenses of the Chicago city government have increased more than 100 per cent during this six-year period ihe rf venues applicable to corporate uses have been more than doubled but this has been partly through the sale of bonds the city has barely made ends meet even though there has been a horizontal increase in taxation to meet increased expenditures in some years as i n 1904 the books closed with a net deficit since 1904 the annual increase of city expenditures over the year preceding has varied from 10 to more than 35 per cent the largest increase was that of 1907 over 1906 â€” when the present aciminis f ration came in in 1907 the expense jumped from 15,351,765.52 to 20,755,129.93 in 1908 the expense for operation and maintenance construction and betterments jumped to 23,016,505.05 tkis included appropriations from the water fund to help out the corporate fund and it did not include 543,263 9c paid out in judgments against the city going back to 1903 we find the expense of running the city gov ernment at 11,707,001.23 by 1908 therefore the expense practically doubled in 1908 alone â€” the second year of the busse administration â€” the budget carried under the heading corporate purposes appro priations for increased salaries amounting to 1,425,016.40 the increase in salary rolls from 1903 to 1908 was approxi mately 7,000,000 8,245 employes in 1903â€”12,872 in 1898 there were 8,245 employes on the corporate fund payroll in 1903 compared with 12,872 in 1908 when the increase over the preceding year was 1,138 the actual salary increase from 1903 to 1908 was 0,830,581.67 thus the increase to 1908 in salaries to city employes reached a total that was only slightly less than the total corporate payroll of five years before in the matter of general government â€” which eliminates the de partment of public safety and the department of public works there was an increase of more than 80 per cent in the number of em ployes between 1903 and 1908 in 1903 the salary roll for this branch of ithe government was 679,086.13 or 541,093.40 less than in the year 1908 the following table shows the increase of employes aÂ»d salaries in the general government by years number of number of employes salaries employes salaries 1903 405 $ 679,086.13 1906 558 $ 913,712.79 1904 493 770,017.69 1907 597 1,148,552.50 1905 498 816,082.10 1903 737 1.220,179.53 the salaries in the mayor'3 office alone totaled 27,499.97 in 190s an increase of 5,108.30 over the preceding year in 1903 the salaries in the mayor's office aggregated 15,501.65 other increases are trace able to new employes for the committees on subway and local trans portation also the employes in the city treasurer's office appeared on the payroll first in 1907 before that they were paid out of the fees of the city treasurer's office fire department payrolls nearly doubled the department of public safety includes the health fire and lice departments it would not be strange if there should be a rmal increase here considering chicago's growth but like other sartments the increases are abnormal of late years the largest iu lases in salaries and number of employes are those connected th the police and fire departments the police revenues were increased about 3,500,000 yearly when oon licenses were raised to 1,000 a year that was in 1906 thu s large increase in the number of policemen on the force may be urged to the saloon license account but the fire department pay rolls were almost doubled in expense between 1903 and 1908 in the whole department of public safety the increases durin the period of 1903 to and including 1908 were number of number of employes salaries employes salaries 1903 4,794 5,301,860.66 1906 5,634 6,179,066.36 1904 4,817 5.332,969.08 1907 6,956 8.236,279.16 1905 5.309 5.646.315.07 1908 7,453 9.106 144 73 â€¢ i **"- â– r^s --<â– ; -.â€¢-â€¢-â– â€¢â– home feb s king victor emmanuel to-day received former vice president fairbanks in private audience and the two were engagÂ«"d in conversation for half an hour the king inquired about affairs in the united states with the politics of which country he showed himself to be quite familiar further complication in the tangle over kctm.oim damage suit kansas city mo feb n.-further complications developed to-day in the tan gle growing out of the efforts of the nt torne.vs on both hides of the swope case to ecore advantage in the taking of depo sitions in the fiuitbrnuglit lust week by dr b c hyde for ioo,<x>o dnmugcs for alleged slander judge bruinback who on thursday ishiicd an order restraining the lawyers from taking depositions dissolved the injunction to-day on the ground that he had lacked jurisdiction fined on pastor's word the rev j y montague yesterday testi fied against three men and three women arrested in nn apartment below his flat at i'm la salle avenue all were fined n<l o-fi '"> â€¢<> ** goldwin smith is hurt nab unlicensed barbers official enforce n<iv state l.im requiring shaving tax canadian victim of severe fall nt his home in toronto toronto ont feb s suffering from the effects of n ijiul fall l'rofessor gold win smith lies lit liis homo liere in n seri ous condition while walking in tlie hall of his home dr smith slipped and fell heavily owing to his advanced ir eiifhty seveti fricnoa re anxious regarding his qi!i.n"cy 111 feb 5.-the hrst proseeu tlool under the new state law requiring barbers to take ont licenses were started here to-day by state's attorney george brlnker john webb henry moore end prank parker were arraigned in i justice court th efism wcm continued to glove concern protests tax francis t simmons & co glove manu facturers at 4 adams street in n bill filed in the circuit court yesterday i;sks that the county treasurer i,e restrained from collecting taxes for iiw umonnting to si.o-j3.41 t'ip hill sfates j<t7o.iio :â€¢ fc *â– en ?*"Â» p~c 4^h column ! pher forecast i u Chicago and vicinity fair sun tft ;: s day and monday slightly colder Â« v \ sunday moderate northerly winds j j*j becoming variable ft tft this edition consists of m mm iâ€”hews 7 editokiai s&vl 1-b 2 â€” roseigu mjbic r ' sf 3 stoslts 3 â€” jhhtflt fe>^j *â– 4 autos souun'i y^j y s â€” seal estate 9 â€” xasaiujiti v \\ kabkeib 10 â€” coi&tc ib %â– Â» g â€” ct^assrrrsp fljg jl , -

vol x xo 32 a m sunday Chicago february 6 1910 price five cents sunday ilmlers is a close mw daughter gains after prayers says hyslop iii bund lasuiolo art routeo by gold no cash no opera american suffragette back from english prison 7,000,000 jump in payroll one employe to 19 voters 60,000,000 budget explained spiritualists unite in asking recov ery of psychical research sec retary's 111 child senator aldrich presents measure providing for com mission of nine orchestra fails to get 750 pay and walks out new york feb s professor james h hyslop secretary of the american so ciety for psychical research this after noon confirmed the report that ills daugh â– ter winifred who was dying friday had shown considerable improvement to-dav following prayers by a band of spiritualists yesterday he refused to discuss whether he thought the prayers tmrt brought about the girl's improved condition the news of miss hy'slnp's illness spread rapidly tliroir^h spiritualistic circles and at the suggestion of a friend prayers were offered up by two score persons yesterday afternoon at the residence of mrs e mult 1 roe hand in west sixty-seventh street dr titr.s tiuli wiio is treating miss h.vsiop denied a report fbat he had written a letter saying that only prayers conld save the girl's life the first association of spiritualists will hold u meeting to-morrow afternoon at which prayers will again ae offered up for tile girl's recovery of theater discuss stock watering pleadings of no avail chicago's expenses increased over 100 per cent in last six years 1,425,616 sal ary boost in 1908 alone 8,245 workers in 1803 raised to 12,872 in 1908 j | â– administration has not only used up last dollar of in j come but has drawn on bond issues for outlay | mayor breaks records in number of appointees | remarkable facts in chicago's budget house committee considers measures bearing on the subject 800 returned to audience who came to see carmen house dark at night auld guilty is report sot only has tlie city lived np;to tiie lazt dollar of its ordinary in come tj-.it it lias had to draw on til | proceeds of bond issues for ordinary expenses Â« * Â¥ in the last six years the corporate expenses of the Chicago city govern ! inent liava increased more than 109 per cent "â€¢ %â€¢ the increaae in salary rolls from 1903 to 1908 was approximately l 37,000,000 in the first year of his administra tion mayor bnsse added to the city pr.y rolls nearly twice as many em i ployss as his predecessor added in the two years of his administration and two and one-half times as many employes as mayor harrison added jj to the payrolls from 1900 to 1904 convicted on two counts ami ae jnitted of falsifying charge bywilliamj shanks miss alice paul b*bxs^e-^4*sxs> â– â– . sweetheart sang or wept to lon ;. i -..-. as the case might just because iho musicians claimed that impresario el odierno owed them 7t>o in back salaries they hung up the performance and an audience of well in dollars and cents it was au soo audience â€” sat waiting and munching chocolatea until 3 o'clock in the afternoon only to have f c eberts manager of the theater make his bow before the footlights and repeat a speech which caused she dollars and cents to melt away like sno-.vflakes in july ladies and gentlemen i am sorry to announce that on account of trouble with the orchestra the performance of car men cannot be given this afternoon this evening's performance will not be given those who wish their money back can obtain it at the box office was the burden of mr eberts 1 speech soft language grows harsh in the meantime there was a weeping and gnashing of teeth behind the big as bestos curtain of the theater stars and comets of all degrees of magnitude flew across a painted firmament and if the scenery hadn't been fireproof it might haye been seriously damaged the com pany which is producing gtand opera at the great northern the national grand opera company is mostly italian and the so/t vowels and liquid verbs of sunny italy suddenly assumed the consistency of billiard balls and rattled clicked and caromed as everybody talked at once it is the money we want and not the dream of the glory declared pietro sec ond fiddle with a long sweeping gesture of his bow as e stood facing impresario odierno the impresario said something whirh sounded like a mixture of his own name with two pounds of blasting powder blanche hamilton fox puffed and paint ed and powdered and as pretty a cigarette girl as^ver charmed a don jose tripped up and tried to restore peace but she might as well have tried to reform the bandits of her mountain retreat but musicians are firm we will give you 300 now and pay yon practically all of yonr salaries if you will play at this afternoon's and this evening's performance said manager eberts with yankee directness zyzaretolmerstowzxzzornamirshline reth armornzxteutonw shouted a chorus of italian musicians who composed the com mittee appointed by the orchestra mem bers to demand immediate payment of sala manager efcerts knowing that the thea ter was not responsible for the salaries im mediately retreated before this apparently warlike declaration conductor g ange lini pleaded and threatened the members of his orchestra but they stood firm it i pay and play with them ind to think that 1 have been adver 1 all over the country as leading this estra lie groaned as he saw his at pts at pacification were useless le audience filed out without seeing rmen and last night there were many ppointed conples inquiring at the box office i he national grand opera company w york organization and started i in on the road some time ago sai iger eberts in new york the com was located at the academy of musi the company has made money since i Chicago engagement but v.as behind son in salaries if the musicians had played at the afte noon's and evening's performance the would have been paid within v>d of wli.it was owing them i think that some sort of a compromise will be reached sundaj afternoon however the striking musicians nay they will sweep he streets before they v,ih-com promise american suffragette home again bound while food was forced down throat a 10,000 bill is lost messenger drops piÂ«e ii loose change sent by banking firm ! new york feb 5 a simple ten-word message came over the ticker tape be tween quotations to-day which set hun dreds of messenger boys and office boya in the financial district searching through wall street the tape read lost a tea thousand dollar bill notify ilornblower & weeks this piece of loose change had been eent by hornblower & weeks bankers and hrokers to a member of the exchange and was lost by the messenger on his way to wall street gives 100 boys 1 each washixgtox f-'h ."Â».â€” i-'rom tiie com mittee on public expenditures senator a!er cent of the recipients become regular keepers of bank accounts besides twelve roung men are now attending various col eges through loans arranged with gimbel own requiem by odell former governor comments cheer fully on mi political funeral new york feb s former governor benjamin b odell commented cheerfully last night on his own political funeral to the members of the delaware valley so ciety at their annual banquet lie said u is a wise child that knows his own father and r want to say that it is a wise politician who knows when he is dead i am supposed to be politically dead some times i even think i ought to turn re 1 former 490,000 in bible fund american society need jo,ooo to get sirs sage'n ici.ooo commissioner of public works subject of grand jury vote but escaped true bill ad mits member of the body ericson redieske and con tractor ivicgovern accused with others of complicity in shale graft at city hall cummings foundry case is left to february inquisition along with eight other ex posures by commission an attempt wns m:Â»je to indict comnii sinner cii public v.'orks john j huulier lien the indictments returned yesterda for alleged graft at the city hall wer rated against city engineer john erieson contractor michael 12 mcuoveru i'au euieske and eleven others in charge growing out of the two graft scandals i connection with the construction of th lawrence avenue intercepting sewer a vote was taken on the yuescion wheth er the evidence heard by the grand jury istihed the indictment of commissioner hanberg the twelve rotes necessary 1o i'iduct were hot cast i',000 out of his own poc.ktt for a complete investigation the offer wus refused by district attorney whitman and judge o'sullivan who lield that the public should pay the board of estimate at mr whitman's request appro priated the money glazier is sentenced former michigan m :â– !â€¢â€¢â€¢ trenknrer i:is serve five to ten years king greets fairbanks victor emmanuel of italy receiver the former vice preÂ»ident mason mich feu 6 frank i gla zier formerly state treasurer who was convicted of misappropriation of 685,000 state funds to the uso of his private bank and his conviction affirmed by the su preme court whs sentenced to serve not less than five years nor more than ten in jackson prison by judge wiest this morn ing glazier's only comment on the sen tence was i fully expected it swope injunction void t t or the first time in its history chicago's budget of anticipated i l yearly expenditures touches the 560,000,000 mark more than 10,000,000 of this is to come from special bond issues if the a voters consent the administration specifies in detail the per manent public improvements to which the proceeds oi these special bond issues are to be applied yet as a matter of municipal history 1 the city has used portions of previous bond issues for current expenses Chicago is in the position of a corporation that has not even met current expenses out of current revenues under prudent management not only should the city's operating expenses such as salaries be paid out of current revenue but the city's physical upkeep also mainte nance repairs and depreciation ate all chargeable to current revenue bond issues by common consent should be reserved for capital out lay in permanent improvements yet the city's accounts show conclusively that a part at least of the proceeds of bond issues have been used to defray current ex penses not only has the city lived up to the last dollar of its ordinary income but it has had to draw on the proceeds of bond issues tar ordinary expenditures this means that future taxpayers must when these past bond issues fall due settle for the incompetence and ex travagance of former administrations where there are tangible im provements to show for these bond issues the case is different city's expenses increase ovejtjoo per gent it is pertinent also to note that in the last six years the cor porate expenses of the Chicago city government have increased more than 100 per cent during this six-year period ihe rf venues applicable to corporate uses have been more than doubled but this has been partly through the sale of bonds the city has barely made ends meet even though there has been a horizontal increase in taxation to meet increased expenditures in some years as i n 1904 the books closed with a net deficit since 1904 the annual increase of city expenditures over the year preceding has varied from 10 to more than 35 per cent the largest increase was that of 1907 over 1906 â€” when the present aciminis f ration came in in 1907 the expense jumped from 15,351,765.52 to 20,755,129.93 in 1908 the expense for operation and maintenance construction and betterments jumped to 23,016,505.05 tkis included appropriations from the water fund to help out the corporate fund and it did not include 543,263 9c paid out in judgments against the city going back to 1903 we find the expense of running the city gov ernment at 11,707,001.23 by 1908 therefore the expense practically doubled in 1908 alone â€” the second year of the busse administration â€” the budget carried under the heading corporate purposes appro priations for increased salaries amounting to 1,425,016.40 the increase in salary rolls from 1903 to 1908 was approxi mately 7,000,000 8,245 employes in 1903â€”12,872 in 1898 there were 8,245 employes on the corporate fund payroll in 1903 compared with 12,872 in 1908 when the increase over the preceding year was 1,138 the actual salary increase from 1903 to 1908 was 0,830,581.67 thus the increase to 1908 in salaries to city employes reached a total that was only slightly less than the total corporate payroll of five years before in the matter of general government â€” which eliminates the de partment of public safety and the department of public works there was an increase of more than 80 per cent in the number of em ployes between 1903 and 1908 in 1903 the salary roll for this branch of ithe government was 679,086.13 or 541,093.40 less than in the year 1908 the following table shows the increase of employes aÂ»d salaries in the general government by years number of number of employes salaries employes salaries 1903 405 $ 679,086.13 1906 558 $ 913,712.79 1904 493 770,017.69 1907 597 1,148,552.50 1905 498 816,082.10 1903 737 1.220,179.53 the salaries in the mayor'3 office alone totaled 27,499.97 in 190s an increase of 5,108.30 over the preceding year in 1903 the salaries in the mayor's office aggregated 15,501.65 other increases are trace able to new employes for the committees on subway and local trans portation also the employes in the city treasurer's office appeared on the payroll first in 1907 before that they were paid out of the fees of the city treasurer's office fire department payrolls nearly doubled the department of public safety includes the health fire and lice departments it would not be strange if there should be a rmal increase here considering chicago's growth but like other sartments the increases are abnormal of late years the largest iu lases in salaries and number of employes are those connected th the police and fire departments the police revenues were increased about 3,500,000 yearly when oon licenses were raised to 1,000 a year that was in 1906 thu s large increase in the number of policemen on the force may be urged to the saloon license account but the fire department pay rolls were almost doubled in expense between 1903 and 1908 in the whole department of public safety the increases durin the period of 1903 to and including 1908 were number of number of employes salaries employes salaries 1903 4,794 5,301,860.66 1906 5,634 6,179,066.36 1904 4,817 5.332,969.08 1907 6,956 8.236,279.16 1905 5.309 5.646.315.07 1908 7,453 9.106 144 73 â€¢ i **"- â– r^s --o dnmugcs for alleged slander judge bruinback who on thursday ishiicd an order restraining the lawyers from taking depositions dissolved the injunction to-day on the ground that he had lacked jurisdiction fined on pastor's word the rev j y montague yesterday testi fied against three men and three women arrested in nn apartment below his flat at i'm la salle avenue all were fined n 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